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02 - The Training of Jad-bal-ja · Tarzan and the Golden Lion

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, the training of jad Balja, and so Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: of the Apes and Jane Clayton and Korak came home
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  Speaker 1: after a long absence, and with them came jad Balja,
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Lion and zah the Bitch. Among the first
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  Speaker 1: to meet them and to welcome them home, was Old Muviro,
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  Speaker 1: father of Wasimbu, who had given his life in defense
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  Speaker 1: of the home, and wife of the ape Man. All Wanna,
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  Speaker 1: cried the faithful Black. My old eyes are made young
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  Speaker 1: again by the sight of you. It has been long
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  Speaker 1: that you have been gone. But though many doubted that
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  Speaker 1: you would return, Old Muviro knew that the great world
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  Speaker 1: held nothing that might overcome his master. And so he
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  Speaker 1: knew too that his master would return to the home
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  Speaker 1: of his love and the land where his faithful Waziri
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  Speaker 1: awaited him. But that she whom we have mourned as dead,
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  Speaker 1: should have returned as beyond belief. And great shall be
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  Speaker 1: the rejoicing in the huts of the Waziri to night,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth shall tremble to the dancing feet of
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  Speaker 1: the warriors, and the heavens ring with the glad cries
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  Speaker 1: of their women. Since the three they love most on
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  Speaker 1: earth have come back to them. And in truth great
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  Speaker 1: indeed was the rejoicing in the huts of the Waziri.
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  Speaker 1: And not for one night alone, but for many nights
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  Speaker 1: did the dancing and the rejoicing continue, until Tarzan was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to put a stop to the festivities that he
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  Speaker 1: and his family might gain a few hours of unbroken slumber.
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  Speaker 1: The ape man found that not only had his faithful Waziri,
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  Speaker 1: under the equally faithful guidance of the English foreman, Jervis,
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  Speaker 1: completely rehabilitated his stables, corrals, and outbuildings, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the native huts, but had restored the interior of the bungalow,
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  Speaker 1: so that in all outward appearances the place was precisely
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  Speaker 1: as it had been before the raid of the Germans.
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  Speaker 1: Jervis was at Nairobi on the business of the estate,
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  Speaker 1: and it was some days after their arrival that he
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  Speaker 1: returned to the ranch. His surprise and happiness were no
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  Speaker 1: less genuine than those of the Waziri. With the chief
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  Speaker 1: of Warriors, he sat for hours at the feet of
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  Speaker 1: the big Wuana, listening to an account of the strange
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  Speaker 1: land of paulul Don and the adventures that had befallen
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  Speaker 1: the three during Lady Greystokes's captivity there and with the Waziri.
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  Speaker 1: He marveled at the queer pets the ape Man had
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  Speaker 1: brought back with him. That Tarzan might have fancied a
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  Speaker 1: mongrel native cur was strange enough, But that he should
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  Speaker 1: have adopted a cub of his hereditary enemies Numa and
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  Speaker 1: Sabor seemed beyond belief, and equally surprising to them. All
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  Speaker 1: was the manner of Tarzan's education of the cub. The
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  Speaker 1: Golden Lion and his foster mother occupied a corner of
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  Speaker 1: the ape Man's bedroom, and many was the hour each
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  Speaker 1: day that he spent in training and educating the little
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  Speaker 1: spotted yellow ball. All playfulness and affection now but one
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  Speaker 1: day to grow into a great savage beast of prey.
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  Speaker 1: As the days passed and the Golden Lion grew, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: taught it many tricks to fetch and carry, to lie
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  Speaker 1: motionless in hiding at his almost inaudible word of command,
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  Speaker 1: to move from point to point as he indicated, to
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  Speaker 1: hunt for hidden things by scent and to retrieve them.
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  Speaker 1: And when meat was added to its diet, he fed
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  Speaker 1: it always in the way that brought grim smiles to
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  Speaker 1: the savage lips of the Waziri warriors. For Tarzan had
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  Speaker 1: built him a dummy in the semblance of a man,
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  Speaker 1: and the meat that the lion was to eat was
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  Speaker 1: fastened always at the third of the dummy. Never did
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  Speaker 1: the manner of feeding vari At a word from the
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  Speaker 1: ape man, the golden lion would crouch bellowed to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and then Tarzan would point to the dummy and whisper
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  Speaker 1: the single word kill. However hungry he might be, the
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  Speaker 1: lion learned never to move toward his meat until that
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  Speaker 1: single word had been uttered by its master, and then
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  Speaker 1: with a rush and a savage growl, it drove straight
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  Speaker 1: for the flesh. While it was little, it had difficulty
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  Speaker 1: at first in clambering up the dummy to the savory
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  Speaker 1: morsel fastened at the figure's throat. But as it grew
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  Speaker 1: older and larger, it gained the objective more easily, and
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  Speaker 1: finally a single leap would carry it to its goal,
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  Speaker 1: and down would go the dummy upon its back, with
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  Speaker 1: the young lion tearing at its throat. There was one
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  Speaker 1: lesson that of all the others, was most difficult to learn,
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  Speaker 1: and it is doubtful that any other than Tarzan of
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  Speaker 1: the apes reared by beasts among beasts could have overcome
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  Speaker 1: the savage bloodlust of the carnivore and rendered his natural
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  Speaker 1: instincts subservient to the will of his master. It took
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  Speaker 1: weeks and months of patient endeavor to accomplish this single
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  Speaker 1: item of the lion's education, which consisted in teaching him
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  Speaker 1: that at the word fetch, he must find any indicated
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  Speaker 1: object and return it to his master, even the dummy
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  Speaker 1: with raw meat tied at its throat, and that he
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  Speaker 1: must not touch the meat, nor harm the dummy, nor
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  Speaker 1: any other article that he was fetching, but placed them
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  Speaker 1: carefully at the ape man's feet. Afterward, he learned always
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  Speaker 1: to be sure of his reward, which usually consisted in
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  Speaker 1: a double portion of the meat that he loved best.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Graycetokking Korak were often interested spectators of the education
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  Speaker 1: of the Golden Lion, though the former expressed mystification as
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  Speaker 1: to the purpose of such elaborate training of the young cub,
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  Speaker 1: and some misgivings as to the wisdom of the ape
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  Speaker 1: man's program. What in the world can you do with
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  Speaker 1: such a brute After he has grown, she asked, he
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  Speaker 1: bids fair to be a mighty numa. Being accustomed to men,
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  Speaker 1: he will be utterly fearless of them, And having fed
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  Speaker 1: always at the throat of a dummy, he will look
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  Speaker 1: there at the throat of living men for his food.
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  Speaker 1: Hereafter he will feed only upon what I tell him
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  Speaker 1: to feed, replied the ape man. But you do not
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  Speaker 1: expect him to always feed upon men, she interrogated laughingly.
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  Speaker 1: He will never feed upon men. But how can you
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  Speaker 1: prevent it? Having taught him from cub hood always to
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  Speaker 1: feed upon men. I am afraid, Jane, that you underestimate
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence of a lion, or else, I very much
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  Speaker 1: overestimate it. If your theory is correct. The hardest part
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  Speaker 1: of my work is yet before me. But if I
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  Speaker 1: am right, it is practically complete. Now, however, we will
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  Speaker 1: experiment a bit and see which is right. We shall
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  Speaker 1: take jot Baljaw out upon the plane with us. This
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  Speaker 1: afternoon game is plentiful, and we shall have no difficulty
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  Speaker 1: in ascertaining just how much control I have over young Knuma.
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  Speaker 1: After all, I'll weigher a hundred pounds, said Korak, laughing
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  Speaker 1: that he does just what he jolly well pleases after
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  Speaker 1: he gets a taste of live blood. You are on,
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  Speaker 1: my son, said the ape man. I think I am
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  Speaker 1: going to show you and your mother this afternoon what
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  Speaker 1: you or any one else has never dreamed could be accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Lord Greystoke, the world's premier animal trainer, cried Lady Greystoke,
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  Speaker 1: and Tarzan joined them in their laughter. It is not
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  Speaker 1: animal training, said the ape man. The plan upon which
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  Speaker 1: I work would be impossible to any one but Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: of the Apes. Let us take a hypothetical case to
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  Speaker 1: illustrate what I mean. There comes to you some creature
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  Speaker 1: whom you hate, whom, by instinct and heredity, you consider
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  Speaker 1: a deadly enemy. You are afraid of him. You understand
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  Speaker 1: no word that he speaks. Finally, by means, sometimes brutal,
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  Speaker 1: he impresses upon your mind his wishes. You may do
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  Speaker 1: the thing he wants. But do you do it with
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of unselfish loyalty. You do not. You do
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  Speaker 1: it under compulsion, hating the creature that forces his will
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  Speaker 1: upon you. At any moment that you felt it was
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  Speaker 1: in your power to do so, you would disobey him.
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  Speaker 1: You would even go further, You would turn upon him
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  Speaker 1: and destroy him. On the other hand, there comes to
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  Speaker 1: you one with whom you are familiar. He is a friend,
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  Speaker 1: a protector. He understands and speaks the language that you
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  Speaker 1: understand and speak. He has fed you, he has gained
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  Speaker 1: your confidence by kindness and protection. He asked you to
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  Speaker 1: do something for him. Do you refuse? No, you obey willingly.
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  Speaker 1: It is thus that the Golden Lion will obey me,
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  Speaker 1: as long as it suits his purpose to do so,
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  Speaker 1: commented Korak. Let me go a step farther, then, said
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  Speaker 1: the ape man. Suppose that this creature, whom you love
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  Speaker 1: and obey, has the power to punish, even to kill you,
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  Speaker 1: if it is necessary so to do, to enforce his commands.
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  Speaker 1: How then, about your obedience, we'll see, said Korak, how
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  Speaker 1: easily the Golden Lion will make one hundred pounds for me.
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  Speaker 1: That afternoon, they set out across the plain Jatbaldjaw, following
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan's horses heels. They dismounted at a little clump of
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  Speaker 1: trees some distance from the bungalow, and from there proceeded
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  Speaker 1: onward warily toward a swale in which antelopes were usually
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  Speaker 1: to be found moving up which they came cautiously to
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  Speaker 1: the heavy brush that boarded the swale. Upon their side
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  Speaker 1: there was Tarzan, Jane and Korak, and close beside Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Lion, four jungle hunters, and of the four,
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  Speaker 1: Jadbaldjaw the lion was the least accomplished. Stealthily, they crawled
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  Speaker 1: through the brush, scarce a leaf rustling to their passage,
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  Speaker 1: until at last they looked down into the swale upon
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  Speaker 1: a small herd of antelope grazing peacefully. Below. Closest to
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  Speaker 1: them was an old buck and him Tarzan pointed out
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  Speaker 1: in some mysterious manner to jod Baljaw fetch him. He whispered,
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  Speaker 1: and the Golden Lion rumbled a scarce audible acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 1: the command. Stealthily, he worked his way through the brush
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  Speaker 1: the antelopes fed on, unsuspecting. The distance separating the line
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  Speaker 1: from his prey was over great for a successful charge,
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  Speaker 1: and so jod Baljaw waited, hiding in the brush until
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  Speaker 1: the antelope should either graze closer to him or turn
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  Speaker 1: its back toward him. No sound came from the fore
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  Speaker 1: watching the grazing herbivora, nor did the latter give any
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  Speaker 1: indication of a suspicion of the nearness of danger. The
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  Speaker 1: old buck moved slowly closer to jod Baljaw, almost imperceptibly.
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  Speaker 1: The lion was gathering for the charge. The only noticeable
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  Speaker 1: movement was the twitching of his tail's tip. And then,
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  Speaker 1: as lightning from the sky, as an arrow from a bow,
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  Speaker 1: he shot from immobility to tremendous speed in an instant
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  Speaker 1: He was almost upon the book before the latter realized
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  Speaker 1: the proximity of danger. And then it was too late,
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  Speaker 1: for scarcely had the antelope wheeled than the lion rose
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  Speaker 1: upon its hind legs and seized it, while the balance
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  Speaker 1: of the herd broke into precipitate flight. Now, said Korak,
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  Speaker 1: we shall see he will bring the antelope to me,
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  Speaker 1: said Tarzan confidently. The gold lion hesitated a moment, growling
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  Speaker 1: over the carcass of his kill. Then he seized it
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  Speaker 1: by the back, and, with his head turned to one side,
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  Speaker 1: dragged it along the ground beside it as he made
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  Speaker 1: his way slowly back toward Tarzan through the brush. He
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  Speaker 1: dragged the slain antelope until he had dropped it at
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  Speaker 1: the feet of his master, where he stood looking up
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  Speaker 1: at the face of the ape man with an expression
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  Speaker 1: that could not have been construed into aught, but pride
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  Speaker 1: in his achievement and a plea for commendation. Tarzan stroked
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  Speaker 1: his head and spoke to him in a low voice,
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  Speaker 1: praising him, and then drawing his hunting knife, he cut
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  Speaker 1: the jugular of the antelope and looked the blood from
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  Speaker 1: the carcass. Jane and Korak stood close watching John Baljaw.
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  Speaker 1: What would the lion do with the smell of fresh
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  Speaker 1: hot blood in his nostrils. He sniffed at it and growled,
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  Speaker 1: and with bared fangs he eyed the three wickedly. The
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  Speaker 1: ape man pushed him away with his open palm, and
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  Speaker 1: the lion growled again angrily and snapped at him, quick
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  Speaker 1: as Numa, quick as barrow the deer. But Tarzan of
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  Speaker 1: the apes is lightning. So swiftly did he strike, and
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  Speaker 1: so heavily that Jod Baljaw was falling on his back,
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  Speaker 1: almost in the very instant that he had grouted his master. Swiftly.
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  Speaker 1: He came to his feet again, and the two stood
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  Speaker 1: facing one another. Down commanded the ape man lie down.
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  Speaker 1: Jod Baljaw. His voice was low and firm. The lion
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  Speaker 1: hesitated but for an instant, and then lay down, as
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan of the Apes had taught him to do. At
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  Speaker 1: the word of command, Tarzan turned and lifted the carcass
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  Speaker 1: of the antelope to his shoulder. Come, he said to
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  Speaker 1: jod Baljaw, heel, and without another glance at the carnivore,
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  Speaker 1: he moved off toward the horses. I might have known,
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  Speaker 1: said Korak, with a laugh, and saved to my hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you might have known, it, said his mother.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter